Recent Submissions

Maposa, Marshall Tamuka(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2008)

The use of technology in History teaching is not a new phenomenon, but its impact has been varied depending on the context, teachers and, more importantly, the nature of the innovation. For years, I have come across the ...

Makhasane, Sekitla Daniel(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2008)

Competence in the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) is a buzz word today given the fact that ICTs have impacted almost all sectors of the global society. Most employers, for example, require people who ...

Iyer, Leevina(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2008)

The development of modern technology is the gateway to a completely different world, one where education is governed not by the educator's ability to teach; or his/her capability to pass on knowledge to learners, but rather ...

Strauss, Johann(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2008)

Name changing goes hand in hand with new governments; this has happened all over the world. Name changing has become part of South Africa in recent times and seems to continue in the near future. Name changing confuses the ...

Mazibuko, Edmund Zizwe(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2008)

The theme of the conference is a celebration of history teaching in the 350th year of schooling in South Africa. A lot of developments have happened during with regard to the teaching and understanding of history as a ...

Wahlberg, Barbara(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2008)

With the introduction of Outcomes Based Education (OBE) in South Africa in 1998, simultaneously a new curriculum, Curriculum 2005 (C2005), was developed. This curriculum confronted past problems with the way history had ...

Van Eeden, Elize S(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2008)

The early twenty-first century evidenced a worldwide change in History teaching through the means of several revised History curricula in the further education and training (FET) phase (high schools) and the developments ...

Bertram, Carol(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2008)

The purpose of this paper is to interrogate what makes history a specialised and particular discipline; to ask what does it mean to do history and to know history. I draw on the work of those working within the field of ...